Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-01

The ladies of the Congregational
church will give an entertainment
Thursday evening, September 8. Miss
Adelia r. Luse, of San Francisco, will
give one of her popular recitals. Miss
Luse is an accomplished elocutionist
and those who have had the pleasure of
listening to her have been highly
pleased.
Quite a party is camping at Kings on
the Platte. The camp has been favor
lite place for visitors from town who
drive down and spend the afternoon or
evening and return by moonlight.
Allie Whitcomb has returned from
Iowa, where he has been spending his
vacation establishing agencies for books.
He will return to Beloit this month and
resume his studies.
viii Potter, son of John Potter of
Elmdalo who has been suffering from
carries of the bones of the right leg, had
the limb amputated this morning.
The young man is seventeen years of
age.
After Sept. l there will daily mail
from Beetown to Cassville.
George Watriss a son of Norman
Watriss of Bloomington, diedi Dakota
Of cerebro spinal meningitis He is bur-
led to day at Bloomington.
II is said that change will soon be
made in our Milwaukee train. The
train from Lancaster will only run to
Madison and return, with the same
crew throughout. Mr. Zinenger will
be the conductor. Mr.. Kuhn will take
charge of the other train from Madison
TO Milwaukee. There will probably be
some change in time.
An uneonfrmed report has reached
Lancaster that our former townsman,
Augustus Huntemer, is dead. We hope
to be able to contradict the rumor next
week. Some weeks ago he was pros
trated by sunstroke, and it is possible
that the unwelcome news is true, but
his friends here still discredit the report.
Messrs. Ryland and Phelps have
bought handsome black Swigert, three
years old, from the Smith Bros. The
colt was raised by Dan. Decker.
Don'tforget our fair, Sept. 81, %, %.
The county fair is the one to attend.
1t will be the best ever held here
Rev. Jesse Wolf who has occupied
the pulpit of the Baptist church in
this city during the summer, preached
his farewell sermon Sunday. He will
return to his theological studies at
seminary in Iowa.
John Wenzel is going to take trip
to Pennsylvania and visit his old home.
He will go in about two weeks.
Two gentlemen named Surdam and
Taylor from Monroe Co. who own the
patent right of this state for bed
spring have rented the rooms above the
marble works and will manufacture
and sell springs in this vicinity.
Mitchell & Sphinx, manufacturers of
cigars in st. Paul, Mimi, are giving
people the best five cent smoke they
ever had. The aroma of one of the M.
& S. cigars is unequaled. About every
man in town has tried them with the
greatest satisfaction, and goes his way
recommending them to every one he
meets. They are for sale at several
places here in town and only cost a
nickel. Extravaganza of smokers is a
general complaint against them, but
five cents can hardly buy more solid
comfort than when invested in the fra
grant M. & S. Try one, don't fail
Lewis Alt got home Tuesday night
after IN absence of two months, visiting
his old home in Germany. He had
good time, but his first words after
getting to his house were, There's no
place like home" His family and friends
had the house and grounds decorated in
honor of his return. The voyage over
was pleasant, but the return trip was
pretty rough. Last Friday, when some
four hundred miles off New York, they
ran into hurricane which drove them
back over hundred miles, and came
near swapping them. When they be-
gan getting out the life-preservers
Louis began to think he should never
see Lancaster again.
Charles Zeninger, brother of con
ductor John Zeninger Of our Milwaukee
passenger, who was train dispatcher for
the Santa Fe road at Emporia, Kansas,
suddenly lost his mind last Sunday
night, and became possessed of the idea
that he had been the cause of terrible
train wreck, and that bowling mob was
outside the depot building attempting to
break in and hang him. He finally be-
came so vioently insane that it took
several men to overcome him and take
him home, where he now lies a raving
maniac About two weeks ago he lost
young and beautiful wife, to whom he
had been married about year, and this
is supposed to have prayed upon his
mind to such an extent that he lost his
reason. Both ne and his wife belonged
to one of the best families, and moved
in the first circles of Kansas society.
His condition is critical, and it is hardly
expected he will recover, as brain fever
will probably carry him off. His broth
er was dispatched for and went on
Monday.
CALL AND SETTLE. Miss Spaith re-
quests all who arc indebted to her to
call and set tie their accounts at once.
Stretching CLASS. - Miss Helen
Hesler is forming a sketching class in
oil, charcoal or pencil. Miss Hesler is
a student at the Chicago Art Institute